Natural landscape

The artwork I have chosen is titled, “American Gothic”, by the artist Grant wood. The artwork was painted in the year of 1930. The painting measures 29 1/4 X 24 1/2 inches. These materials make the painting look realistic: oil on beaverboard, pitchfork, clothes, glasses, and the house in the background. The artwork is located in The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and VAGA, New York, New York. I will now describe the painting I have chosen so you will know what it looks like. The…

Pastoral Tableau was designed by Shara Rowley Plough, a mixed media artist who formerly worked in Cleveland,MS. Ms. Plough attended school at the University of Iowa, obtaining a Bachelors of Fine Arts, and at the University of Arizona receiving a Master of Fine Arts. After receiving such illustrious degrees, she went on to pursue her career as an artist. Pastoral Tableau exhibit was displayed in the Wright Art Center located on Delta State University’s campus. This exhibit featured several…

ever changing and quickly passing away. In the year of 1836 Thomas Cole settled in the village of Catskill and continued “in search of the picturesque.” To his enjoyment that is exactly what he found and as a result painted some of the most known landscape paintings of his time. Although he did not need to write such a piece as “American Scenery,” he did and for a reason. Cole mentions the sublime repeatedly throughout when talking about nature and the wilderness which he considered the…

Allegory of Geometry” by Laurent de La Hyre, which was made in oil on canvas 1649. The painting is signed by La Hyre on the lower center part of the painting along with the date created. La Hyre is a French painter who was “born in Feb. 27, 1606, in Paris, France”(1) and later “died in Dec. 28, 1656, in Paris”(1). La Hyre is famous painter who is known for painting in the French Baroque style and for painting in the Classicism style. La Hyre’s “paintings reflects the influence of Vouet,…

From this week’s reading, I’m most interested in the landscape painting of Fan Kuan, TRAVELERS AMONG MOUNTAINS AND STEAMS, from the Song dynasty of China. This is a ink painting on silk that describes the Monumental landscape at that time. Most importantly, Neo-Confucianism coincided with the development of these kind of Monumental landscape painting and played an important role on this kind of art. Neo-Confucianism is a Chinese moral philosophy which rebuilt Confucianism with Buddhism and…

The Oxbow is a landscape painting composed by Thomas Cole in 1836 using oil on canvas as medium. The painting was a view from Mount Holyoke, Northamption Massachussets after a thunderstorm. At first glance i can't help but to appreciate the beautiful interpretation of wilderness to the left and the first modern society to the right. Also, This piece shows how unpredictable nature can be due to calamaties and no man can do anything about it. The Oxbow by Thomas Cole is a masterpiece depicting…

in effect. Every piece of art, music, paintings, books were shaped by the ideas drawn from the Bible. Many artists were interested in recreating how they believed events in the Bible looked like. John Martin is one artist that creates panoramic landscape paintings inspired by these historical events. The ideas of Romanticism and Realism are expressed heavily in artwork during the Biblical movement. Other artists techniques can be compared and contrasted to Martin’s. His technique is one of…

the significant themes of Chinese landscape painting can find their origins within the various schools of thought that were dominant during the rise of this fascinating style. In an article published in The Art Bulletin in June of 1941, Alexander Soper created a rigorously detailed timeline of this phenomenon and attached to each artistic movement the particular belief system it could be identified with it. While the contents of the article, “Early Chinese Landscape Painting”, are vast and…

I’ve always enjoyed Impressionist art, but only recently became aware of Gustave Caillebotte’s “The Floor Scrapers,“ painted in 1875. The oil canvas is so unusually realistic that it really caught my eye. Here are three men planning a floor--perhaps it’s new, or an old one being refinished--and their really hard work (I’ve done the same job) is so strikingly at odds with the elegant room they are in, that the picture intrigues me. I can almost smell the raw wood, and the men’s sweat. We are in a…

The Eames created a distinct space where nature and civilization impact and affect the presence of one another. Human relationship to the surrounding social environment is also pertinent when constructing the Eames’s narrative. Ray Eames’s sculpture fashioned from a salvaged post of the old Ocean Park Pier sits in the patio space directly outside of the living room. The sculpture was fashioned from a 5-foot burnt wooden beam with a rusted curving spike protruding from the top. Ray Eames did…